Aaron Sorkin is still terrified of women on the internet — theverge.com

The HBO series The Newsroom began in 2012 as a story about one man's mission to civilize — starting with the lowest-common-denominator churn of cable news. Like Mad Men, it is a workplace period piece about a white alpha male adrift in a swingin' new media landscape, only instead of taking place half a century ago, it takes place in the intellectual dark ages of roughly 2010-13. Its original targets were the kind of Fox News / Nancy Grace types usually more succinctly lambasted by Jon Stewart, but over the last couple of seasons, it — or rather its creator, Aaron Sorkin — has realized his common-decency princess is in another castle: the internet. And who's holding her hostage? A bunch of ladies, probably.

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